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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 17-03-28
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[01] Guns and ammunition found inside mosque in Xanthi; imam arrested
[01] Guns and ammunition found inside mosque in Xanthi; imam arrested
Two guns, a hunting rifle and thirty cartridges were discovered by police
inside a village mosque in Xanthi, northeastern Greece, on Tuesday,
after a tip-off received by authorities. The mosque's imam was arrested
for possession of weapons and is being interrogated about the case.
Police raided the mosque located in the village of Iliopetra accompanied
by a prosecutor and found a .22 pistol, a .38 pistol with a silencer,
a Flobert hunting rifle and the ammunition. All the findings were sent
to the Forensic Service's laboratories in Athens.
According to reliable sources, the Turkish general consul in Komitini
and the unofficial religious authority in Xanthi to which the imam
belongs to agreed to leak to the controlled Turkish-language press of
the region that this is a conspiracy involving Turkish cleric Fethullah
Gulen's organization FETO.
The same sources said the media make an explicit reference to companies
owned by Gulen in Thrace which shows an attempt to export a Turkish
problem to Greece, firstly because of the Turkish referendum and secondly
because the findings put them at an extremely unfavorable position.
Greek officials have repeatedly stated they Turkey will not be allowed
to export its domestic problems to Greece.
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